Copenhagen. 1815. xxxvi,[2],126pp. Extra engraved titlepage plus engraved frontispiece. Later old plain boards. Clean, very good copy. Contains a eulogy for Captain Verner Hans Fredrik Abrahamson (1744-1812) and his son, Ludvig August Abrahamson. The latter spent the years 1783-1810 in the United States. Includes brief biographies of the two men... More

London. 1802. Two volumes. xxiv,396; viii,380pp. plus folding map and sixteen plates (five handcolored). Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepages. Scattered foxing and toning, some offsetting from plates. Very good. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer, and this record of his travels in... More

Lisbon: Miguel Rodrigues, 1764. [2],17,[1]pp. Folio. Dbd. Except for the lightest foredge dampstaining, a near fine copy. A rare work, describing the trial and verdicts in the case of nineteen men accused of the 1762 murder of Portugal's local auditor/councilor, Joao Vieira de Andrade, in the Cape Verde Islands off... More

[On board the U.S.S. Trenton, European Station]. [ca. 1878-1881]. Two pamphlets. 12; 16pp. 12mo. Fastened with bronze tack. Slight staining, else good. A curious little pair of imprints, printed on a U.S. Navy shipboard press sometime not long after the Civil War. The first, the INSPECTION... pamphlet, describes what an..... More

Aix: Joseph David, 1783. 3pp. Quarto. Later marbled paper wrappers. Moderate edge wear, slight browning to edges. Very good. Regional printing at Aix of the official proclamation of peace between France and Great Britain, originally printed by the Imprimerie Royale. This version contains an additional paragraph of official authorization for... More

Paris: P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, 1783. 4pp. Quarto. Modern marbled boards. Slight browning, else very good. City of Paris edition of the official proclamation of peace between France and Great Britain, ending the war in the American colonies, and originally printed by the Imprimerie Royale. This Parisian reprint, in..... More

Rome: Antonio de Rossi, 1696. Two volumes. xl,[8],410; [20],286,[62]pp. Folio. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titles in ink. Occasional tanning; marginal dampstaining and tanning throughout the second volume, monastic ownership inscription on half-titles. Very good. First edition of a bibliography of Spanish authors to the year 1500, following Antonio's 1672 BIBLIOTHECA... More

London. 1795. 68pp. Dbd. Some soiling, else very good. Auckland, a close associate and friend of William Pitt, presents his views on the French Revolution and war, supposedly incorporating the ideals of Pitt as well.More

London. 1795. 68pp. Dbd. Some soiling, else very good. Second edition. Auckland, a close associate and friend of William Pitt, presents his views on the French Revolution and war, supposedly incorporating the ideals of Pitt as well.More

Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, [1626]. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut illustration of ship and boats landing near a castle on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript docketing on fourth page. Early folds. Large chip (approximately 2 3/4 x 2 inches) in lower outer corner of second leaf, touching a few... More

New York. 1980-1997. Six volumes. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. The complete set of this essential reference, finally completed after more than two decades of toil by the staff of the John Carter Brown Library, led by John Alden and Dennis Landis. This is the starting point for researching any... More

New York. 1982. xlviii,954pp. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. A continuation of this indispensable resource, describing books about the Americas printed in Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century.More

London. 1729. [4],28pp. Half title. Later plain paper boards, paper spine, manuscript spine label. Minor foxing. Ex-Huntington Library. Very good. The present pamphlet is written in the form of a letter to the publisher Nicolas Amhurst, the famous political writer, who disguised his identity under the pseudonym of "Caleb D'Anvers."... More